Picnic

Bring the ants, I’m ready for a picnic I just bought an antique picnic basket. It’s just being used to keep some magazines in for now.

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#2 ….. o well …..

Guess I’ll watch the lesson now …..

I suppose it could

WOW I made it :grin:

#5…me too!!

:mrgreen:

Yes I have been on picnics. We would have a family picnic every year where all the aunts, uncles, cousins, moms and dads would get together and have a big meal and enjoy family members we haven’t seen all year. :grin:

J’aime beaucoup le pique-nique — especialement avec Marina :!: :grin:

I do believe this is the earliest I’ve ever posted.

Che I have all the fire ants you could ever want. I can’t kill them fast enough before another hill sprouts up somewhere else in the yard. They are dormant now but I’ll remember you in the spring :razz: :razz: :lol:

In Russia talking in English…? Nooot! :lol:

Oui oui. Ce serait très magnifique, n’est-ce pas?

Capman Versus the Ants

Hey Marina,

No, I’ve never really been on a picnic. I wouldn’t mind going on one sometime…but alas, alack, it’s too cold right now.

Marina is this video in HD or HQ? I couldn’t get it to go to HD on either site. :sad:

That is terrible, buy an anteater or move not much you can do. :sad:

Marina :smile: you look outragous good word :lol: Your semi private picnic a couple of years ago in russia looked like quite a success :mrgreen: HOMEWORK ;
over the years have done many, many picnic”s some small like yours seems to have been :cool: and others humongus affairs :!: Best ones are not planned & you pull the bike over & — PARTY umm picnic thats the ticket..B.B.

One time I was at a picnic with a few friends and we had a small makeshift BBQ fire going like the one in Marina’s video. The grass surrounding the BBQ caught on fire and it was a bit windy… ooops! We nearly collapsed from exhaustion running back and forth to a creek to get water to put it out. It reached about an acre and a half. There wasn’t a hose or firetruck within 30 miles. We were doomed if we didn’t get it put out. :shock:

A sub sandwich, a liter bottle of soda, add a park = instant picnic.
Add a nice summer sunset = romantic picnic.
Add snow = We go out somewhere.

What motivate you to pick what (‘WORD REQUEST’) to use

I ask this because,back when you first opened this classroom, you did words that are not used in everyday talk.
Words like…
‘PHANTASMAGORIA’ or ‘EXTEPORANEOUS’
I for one hope you go back to that style for alittle while at least.

P.S.
I like to use ‘Merriam-Webster’ thesauruses and/or vocabulary builder when I’m writing my stories.
Hoping you can tell me some others that would be helpful in my quest for the “GREAT STORY” that I hope to complete one day.

Hmmmm, might make a B movie. I’ll get Quentin Terentino to direct it. :cool:

Hi Marina,
I think you should put together a picnic in Russia for all your students.
You will be our tour guide.
Or we can call it a field trip. All students who attend will recieve extra credit.

Picnics, barbecues, beer bash, camp outs, done all these things especialy beer bashes. If you don’t know what a beer bash is its an all night party usually without the music and dancing just a bunch of people get together and drink all night till you pass out. A camaraderie you could call it.

cool

Marina,

Wonderful starting picture.
That’s a love affair.

No, it wasn’t a movie idea. It was a play on words from the short story “Leningen Versus the Ants” by Carl Stephenson.

Dear совершенная Marina, You are so thin, you probably ate very little at that picnic, probably not more than a piece or two of the shaslik you were cooking! :smile:
I no longer go on picnics. When I was in the Army, I had enough of dining “in the field.” :sad:
It’s much nicer to dine in a good restaurant, with nice furnishings, fine cuisine, and of course, beautiful company such as yourself. We could talk about word origins, literature, good food, or anything you’d like! :razz:
Your dear student, seesixcm6

Hey! That Yogi guy stole my pic-ca-nic bas-ket

Boo Boo was with him

What's happening in your neck of the woods

Почему нет? Мы говорим по-Русскии тут в Америке! :cool:

The last time I been on a ‘PICNIC’ was back in ’97.
It was at the ‘Museum of Science and Industry’ off Lakeshore Dr.,on Lake Michigan in Chicago,Il.

Marina’s lovely in her dresses…but if I were to meet her in person, I’d feel more comfortable with her dressed like she was on her picnic. :smile:

Homework: I try to picnic at least to see ‘Shakespeare in the Park’, an annual summertime performance at a local amphitheatre. :grin:

Are you kidding? Every days a picnic in the park! :grin:
Sweet BB-Q. :neutral:
One time a friend and I went to the beach to have a bbq and do a little shore fishing. When we got there we relalized that we forgot the bbq but remembered the charcoal(long story)! So we created a hole with the beach rock and filled it full of charcoal. After the coals got real hot we scavenge for the biggest and flattest beach rocks we could find and laid them over the coals. The rocks got nice and hot and thats what we cook the meat on or as I like to call it, Beach Rock Chicken. Very tasty but a bit salty. :wink: AAAND I forgot the bait so I tried the chicken but I don’t think the fish liked it much …It was that or drive 15 minutes back to the house and get the bbq and the bait! Wheres the adventure in that? :mrgreen:

My nieces first husband’s family would have a big picnic on Father’s Day every year, so my family would join in. But when they got divorced, that custom was abandoned. I guess we are indoor eaters and want to have all the conveniences close at hand. Our style is more the screened porch and nearby BBQ — enjoying the great outdoors, but in the shade with no bugs!

In every Quentin Terentino there is a torture scene, Capman staked to the ground near the anthill covered in honey, there you go.

I haven’t been back since they restored the U-505! Have you seen it?

Mmmmm. Cookin’ on the hot manifolds of the U-boat diesels! :lol:

Hey, how did that outfit rate getting the boat? It was U.S. gummint property. There must be an interesting story in that.

Tazman,
I’ve found that people really like hearing the bizarre stories associated with ordinary words.

I do bizarre words from time to time as well, but only if they have interesting stories behind them.

I’ll try to get to some non-ordinary words soon!

Marina

It turned out to be a decent picnic with so much tasty food and drinks and desserts and most of the people whom I didn’t know had already left and so I just said well let’s clean up some of this mess and we started to clear the tables of paper plates, cups, plastic utensils, etc. and we tossed the trash into the wire trash baskets there and then I pretty much left after that.

Hey Gorby’s back and looking good as ever. Glad to see he’s OK Marina.

You betcha!
Mickey Mouse – The Picnic :mrgreen:

Dear Marina,

Thanks for the video. It was nice to see Gorby (he’s back in the pink!) and the home movie was lovely. I have been on quite a few picnics and like them very much. My favorites were on Catalina Island growing up and in Yosemite on hikes from the Awhanee lodge. Food just seems to taste much better outside!

Cheers, Q :smile: :smile:

Marina you said you knew how to cook and at that picnic you’re squirting bottled water on pork shish kebabs like some gypsy woman :roll: hmmm, I wonder :lol: ~just funning~

As for the homework, the fire dept I’m in (as I’m suremost departments do) Have lots of picnics and BBQ’s over the summer and spring for members and their families. And since I’m the new guy, the last few events have involved a lot of work (and one or two minor burns) on my part.

Interesting, indeed, according to Wikipedia

:mrgreen: I love home movies like that

Who is that tough looking chick near the youthful looking Marina in that photo there? She’s got some wild hair. Her pigtails even look mean too. She looks like a female wrestler chick. -dayum-

I enjoy the great outdoors, and laying out a blanket, and eating out at the
V-canal :oops:

Your family ? 1:22
I’ve gone to picnics a few times , all of them at waterfalls
And i got bitten by a leech

Marina’s sister finally appears :mrgreen:

hey Marina, are you going to be more of a regular on Fox News in the future? i think you would be awsome! most popular ‘Fox News contributer’ ever!!!

Hey guys! Learned a fun new word today:
AZBUKA!
So take a guess: is it
a) another name for Cyrillic;
b) a shoulder-fired anti-tank weapon used by the Russians against the Panzers?
:grin:

Hey wait, they’re identical twins, remember :?: :???:

:smile: I’ll take a guess and say AZBUKA is an over the shoulder anti-tank weapon device

The question was asked: Why do hot dogs come 10 to a pack while buns are 8 to a pack? I couldn’t say for sure, but it sounds like a fun way to picnic :razz:

Hi Marina,
Love your videos. Awhile ago you did the Ampersand word and symbol.
Could you do the same for Octothorpe?
:idea:

My compliments, Marina, on your Bar-B-Q apparatus. Kabobs resting on 2 bricks. Simple, cheap and effective. I’ll be sure to take along some bricks, brickets and skewers next time I go car camping. And some kabob food, too, of course.

The last picnic I was on I ended up falling into the lake trying to get my last pack of smokes out of the water.
My grilfriend tossed them to me (poorly :roll: ) and I tried to catch them (again poorly :roll: )
They hit the ground and went over the edge and into the water about two feet below. I got down on my stomach stretched out to grab them. When I got them I tossed them to shore. Doing this caused me to loose balance and I tumbled into the water.

Hey Marina,
What’s the origin of the word “frostbite”?

LOL! I just noticed it and simply MUST visit ‘mydaily*moment’!

I MUST find out if my man is gay! :mrgreen:

Rats – it’s gone now! If I HAD a man, at least one of us would likely be gay, and now I’ll never know which.

{Thinking… “How am I ever gonna break the news to Carol?”}

I like how the smoothie matches the dress. :smile:

I went on picnics when I was younger. They were either for school or were Kiwanis picnics. My dad used to be a member. For all I know, he still is. I haven’t asked.

Hi, Marina!

great video, as usual. :)
i have a word request, or actually it two words. i don’t know if you go that way, but it’s been bugging me as a non native english speaker it doesn’t seems to make any logic (i need stuff to make sense in order to understand it)…
anyways, it’s “at large”. like when they say someone is at large. i tried to read
about it from the webz but now i’m even more dazzled since they were talking about congress meeting at large and whatnot and… please help me! :)

thank you!

ps. sorry for the missing capitals, i can’t reach the shift.

I saw that and wondered who they were asking. If a man, the answer would be “I hope so;” if a woman, “I hope not.”

neat, eat :razz:

Word request :
Revolt , as in “the revolting peasants are revolting !!”
Is rioting disgusting ?

omg , its a)
azbuka does sound like bazooka in another language :mrgreen:

evil twin :mrgreen: spitting image ?

At large (unless you are speaking of criminals on the loose), means without assignment to duty by geographic area, kind of work or other limits. A journalist at large is not assigned to a particular kind of story, such as crime or politics; they can cover any kind of story. Local politicians, if at large, are elected by and serve the people within an entire governmental area, e.g. a county. The opposite would be where the area is divided into smaller areas, such as districts; they are elected by those in a given district and traditionally represent them exclusively (even though there may not be a legal requirement to do so).

In the U.S. Congress, there is one Congressmen per district, so they are not at large; in the Senate, there are two Senators per state, but they do not have assigned territories, so, although not referred to in that way, they are in effect at large as far as their state is concerned, but not with regard to the country.

Yes, she does, doesn’t she? :wink:

Word request :

first …. Hi I am new in this of the request but is a question that I have since my english’steacher said it … by the way if I don’t write correctly … sorry but I’m not a english speaker :P …. but i tried :P

ups .. the word .. o the shortening word is FUCK .. yeah .. I known that usually is used like a rude word, but my teacher said came from “Fornicated Under Consensus of the King” …. is really that the origin of the word????

thanks in advance … atte Rafa :)

Can we see this on YT?

Octothorpe is hidden in the mists of time.

Hi Marina,

As an amateur etymologist and logophile, and of course in line with the style of this show, quite the fan of gluteal mass, I would like to share my favorite word, and ask you to investigate it:
Callypigian.

Thank you very muchly,
Seeasea

Octothorpe is relatively new. Sometimes it is easier to research a very old word, because it will have been used widely and enough time has passed for sources for it to be discovered and documented. New words may turn on the testimony of one or two people; the history may be nothing more than an anecdote or two, so they may not wind up in Marina’s library.

After a thousand years passes, what will the record say about such a scantily-documented word?

Late 20th cent. Was believed to be first found scrawled on the wall of a garage in the ancient (possibly mythical) Silicon Valley, said to exist on the former west coast of North America before the Big One slid it into the Pacific in the early 22nd cent. Anecdotal evidence from survivors hint that it was one of the words in the famous Marina Lesson Series, the originals of which were housed in the Orlova Memorial Institute of Philology and Etymology, near Los Angeles, from which no records were known to have survived.

A 1946 USDA-sponsored study found that, on average, two hotdogs from every package are burned beyond edibility on a BBQ or over a fire or are dropped and discarded or are fed to pets. Statistically, it all works out.

It’s true, I tell you.

The Azbuka was the first RV made in the former Soviet Union. Unfortunately, it’s distinctive storage compartment, protruding from the rear, lead to the slang use of the word to mean the posterior of a heavy woman. Unable to overcome the stigma and the fact that less than .0000065 percent of the population could afford one, the project was abandoned. Soon after, it was a national source endless jokes, that the same local workers in the retooled plant later produced large and extra-large women’s garments.

It’s true, I tell you.

Gypsy women do not use squirt bottles to regulate cooking, which would be unacceptably modern. They spit on the meat and utter violent curses. This not only cooks the meat properly, it also serves as a form of practice that allows them to develop their cursing skills without bringing harm to nearby persons and animals. Well aware of this, gypsy men know better than to approach a gypsy woman while she is barbecuing, which is just the opposite of Western society.

It’s true, I tell you.

Is the time on the comments the time where Marina is? In the uk its 8:44 am I can’t believe I am awake this early

Send her a burka for Christmas.

Dear HotForWords,

Nice Picnic video. I’ve been on a similar picnic with my dad, brother, uncle, and my aunt. It was pretty good. I’d go picnic every weekend up in the canyons if I had a car… :shock:

Your Student,
ThoughtOnFire

Yes, that’s West Coast USA (Pacific) time.

thanks

Oh wow. I just discovered I can do image backgrounds rather than just colors! Cool…

Hey Marina,

I’ve got a word for you:
Gynotikolobomassophilia

Thanks ;)

the last picnic i was on was with my children at High Falls Park (where the “Falls” are maybe 50 ft high – which i guess is “High” for GA)…i took a portable grill and we had grilled burgers & chips…yum!…

don’t forget to rotate that pork, btw… :cool:

No, that’s not really the origin of the word. Marina wrote an article for askmen.com in which she discussed the origin of that word. You can read it for yourself here.

I wish :mrgreen: , but this was WAY before Youtube.

So who has their Christmas shopping done??

Does anyone else wonder if maybe all our languages are based on some weird primitive language that early modern humans stole from Neanderthals?

Grunt grunt grrr grunt?

AZBUKA

I suspect it comes from the French “au large” which means “offshore” or “in the open sea”.
A suitable nautical origin for our Marine goddess to investigate?

I have been on countless picnics in my life but only a few stand out in the memory.
The best were beach picnics in Thailand and the South of France.
In both places you don’t need to prepare a picnic in advance, for as soon as you find a place to sit down you will be approached by vendors offering a selection of culinary delights.
In Thailand, it’s a real picnic, sitting on the ground or at best on beach loungers, whereas in France there are beach restaurants every bit as civilised as any other eatery.
The most unusual picnic I ever attended was a Fourth of July barbecue on an ice floe, a hundred miles north-west of Spitzbergen, beside a research ship moored to the floe, and the next morning we were visited by two families of polar bears scavenging the remains of the food left out on the ice overnight.

hey, love your vidios, and your singing is beautiful on jamesatwar’s “bad grammar”

which is what i wanted to suggest, where did the word “grammar” come from?

search phase: “evolution of language”

suggested reading:

http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=fa/evolution-language

http://library.thinkquest.org/C004367/la1.shtml

http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/socce/evolang6/

http://www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/language/

http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~simon/

http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/5/2/4.html

Homework: Boaters do something similar to a picnicking.We do it on the docks. It’s a pot luck kind of thing that boater do several times a year. During the summer months you can find a dock party just about every week. The aroma of gas grills cooking food just makes your mouth water. Some of the food I have eaten you would not believe it was cooked on a boat. I’ve had dinners that I would easily paid $20 – $30 bucks for. Sometime you can get freshly caught salmon steaks. Yea, large STEAKS! More salmon you could every eat. Just imagine tasty a honey glazed salmon steak with steamed veggies and red potatoes. Yea, I love dock parties. :mrgreen:

Hey, I just wanted to say I like your new gravatar. It’s really you! :mrgreen:

Marina,

How old were you in the first set of pictures.
Where’s your evil sister been lately, time to let her out for the holidays.

Captain,

Have you ever done nesting or rafting?
Same concept.

Too early, wait till next week, to get the full effect.

Ah, the Christmas jar of pickles.
And box of 11 donuts.

Homework :cool: I been on so picnics I can’t count them, but I have never been to a blanket picnic. We have our picnics at parks or rest areas on picnic tables. On time my family stopped at a rest area beside a lake that had ducks and a swan in it. We had started eating when the swan came toward us and started hissing at us! :evil: He must have been very hungry! I threw a chicken leg to it and that sucker “woofed” it down! It still wouldn’t leave and started hissing and charging at us! So we made a hasty exit! I can laugh about it now! :lol: But at the time it was scary! Swans are mean critters :!: :evil:

would anyone please go on a picnic with me this weekend???

swans eat chicken ?? :shock:

:cool: I live about 40 miles from High Falls! I have picnicked there a couple of times! The falls are high for my “neck of the woods”! :mrgreen:

That one did :!: :shock:

Доброй утро Марина,
Очень холодно тут сегодня (-10С), и идёт снег ещё раз — плохой день за “picnic.” :sad:

Oh I’d love to, but it’s very cold and snowy here! :sad: Sumimasen!

I KNEW IT!! MARINA AND SHAKIRA ARE THE SAME PERSON!

http://www.beautyqueentv.com/bill_lyons/images/models/european/marina/marina02.jpg

http://storage0.dms.mpinteractiv.ro/media/1/641/8206/2530163/1/shakira-orig.jpg

But, I don’t think Marina needed to be photoshopped quite so much

Is it me or is youtube just doing this project awesomwe to try and counteract the strike. I would have joined the strike but I couldn’t miss one of the lessons and I always get mail from YT anyway. But I hope it knocks some sense into them.

Yeah, that was a theme of the 1981 movie Quest for Fire. Sorry I couldn’t find a clip with some of the language in it, but they had these Neanderthals speaking proto-Indo-European. :smile:

Доброй утро Марина,
***WORD REQUEST***
“Neanderthal.” How is it that the name of this old human actually means “new man”? Fascinating tale involving someone who loved languages; you’d tell it well. :grin:

Damn you and your sophisticated Russian code… Hmm, I will decipher this.

Доброй утро Марина looks like it says

ao6pon ytpo mapnha … apron typo and something about a map

Очень холодно тут сегодня (-10С)

oyehb xonoaho tyt ceroahr

o hey box no a a ho tight crayola (-10c) (must be a good temperature to store crayons).

и идёт снег ещё раз — плохой день за “picnic.” :sad:

n naet cher pa3 nnoxon aehb 3a picnic

innert cher ps3 moron a b 3a picnic

so it must add up to

apron typo map dont box a hoes tight crayola. Cher is an inert moron ps3 and a picnic in beta..

Hmm, seems i need to decode better :mrgreen:

I think I’ll get circ’ed and put on a yarmulke so I can skip it! :lol:

I don’t mind picnics, as long as the ants or the bees don’t ruin it :lol:

I’m off to a Christmas Barbecue (BBQ) in about 12 hours, and with Christmas quickly approaching … I was wondering about the origin of the word ‘Mistletoe’.

[Inserts quote from Futurama] “Your mistletoe is no match for my Toe Missile” :mrgreen:

You and russianboy (aka gumforever) need to team up. Trade him some computer tricks for Russian lessons. :razz:

Whew! for a second, I thought you were going to say they were scavenging the remains of a picnicker who decided to sleep out overnight. :eek:

Yeah, I was going to say, young man, what are you doing up at 12:44AM on a school night??? :razz:

i study anthropology, thats a good question, here’s a link. too much to write about the physiological and cultural development of language here, and it would get interrupted by he next lesson. if you want to discuss further leave me a message on the, language and culture discussion in the forums.

didnt sleep until 2.. A i go to college

B i broke up from college last week

hmm…try this link

Очень хорошо! :grin:

I would like to know the origin of the word Mercenary and also Trendkill and how they became pretty well known term

“Gyno” = woman
“philia” = love
Something about Women in Love :?: Sorry, ADD moment. :mrgreen:

OOOHHH I just Googled it! Fun! :grin:

Especially when “Neanderthal” is used to refer to “Male Chauvinist Pigs”, the opposite of which is “New Man.” :???:

Gee…sorry. Is that like breaking up with your girlfriend? :mrgreen:

My Tennessee granddaddy used to call-a-pig-in thusly:
“sooo–EEEE! sooo–EEEE!” :mrgreen:
seeasea…here in the Seattle area, we can see the Sound and hear the sea at the same time. Sort of a sensory reversal. :razz:

I suppose our Gallic friend would be a Gynomammoglobomassophiliac. :???:

Hi Marina,
Still waiting for you to cover “Halve your cake and eat it too”, also, another question for you. Are you any relation to Alexandra Orlova? She is a musicologist who investigated Tchaichovsky. Sorry about the spelling. It would explain to me how you became such an ardent investigator, i.e. it runs in your family. thanks for the good work. And yes, I’ve been on numerous picnics. It is a great summer sport here in MN, and WI. Have an awesome day pretty lady.

Better nautical than naughty! :razz:

As the judge said to the bigamist: “You can’t have your Kate and Edith too!” :mrgreen:

But you can “halve” your cake and eat it, two! :razz:

No, breaking up from college is not so hard to do.

My Gaelic friend,
Isn’t that the second reason (first being philology :wink: ) that we’re all at HFW? :grin:

On a calm day, SEA has the sound of aircraft and the Sound has the sound of silence.

Even better both. :wink:

YouTube is not doing project awesome, a couple guys started it.. and it took over the most viewed page last year but this year it’s having difficulty getting traction.

Not related, not that I know of. I may have mentioned “have your cake..” in a video, but I think you are right, it warrants its own video.

nope, i have never been on a picnic, we more often go to the beach and cook… still want my word :???: “IGNORENT” plz

well you’re part right but mostly wrong.

Fox News question (see below). :?:

Hello James,
Didn’t mean to blow you off — here’s a translation into British:

“Bore da Marina,
Oer iawn yma heddiw (14F), ac mae eira eto — dydd drwg am ‘picnic.’ ” :mrgreen:

So without wind, you can’t SEA the sailboats TAC, eh? :mrgreen:

Good morning Rafa,
Good English is English you can understand. Yours is good. :smile:
By the way, what is your first language? :?:
Evan

Oh I forgot there was a language called the british language…

Any Idea when this bloopers DVD will be coming Marina? And also who will put it together (memememe!! :mrgreen: )

Милаяа Марина,
***WORD REQUEST***
Quote from Marina:

Tazman,
I’ve found that people really like hearing the bizarre stories associated with ordinary words.

How about bizarre etymological connections between seemingly unrelated terms; e.g. “Boston Celtics” (the basketball team) and “Galatians” (as in, St. Paul’s letter)?
Here’s another obscure fact: “Ankara” (formerly Angora) means the same as the Welsh word angor. We Celts get around! :grin:

SEA? TAC? O Ma What a comeback. :lol:

Yeah, “Britain” derives from the Welsh “Prydain.” But supposedly we stole the term from the pre-Celtic peoples who arrived in Britain after the ice went off — Picts or Beakerfolk, some such people lost in the mists of time.

‘Mornin’, everybody. Personally, I’ve been on a gazillion more picnics, BBQ’s, cookouts, etc. than times I’ve dined in restaurants. Really always had an outdoors lifestyle.

WORD REQUEST:

SUMMER SAUSAGE

You know, the pre-cooked kind you keep in the ‘fridge. Why “summer”? If you eat it in the winter, are you breaking a rule?

Thanks. Always.

I wonder if you know the origins of the word kiaora
Thanks,
Allan

Afterthought: “Evan” shares the same roots with Иван and “Owen” with Евгений. :cool:

I guess those beers at the picinic got too inspirational and I’m sorry I burnt the popcorn. In spite of or nevertheless; I need a recipe, to make caramel popcorn balls. Any help will be beneficiary in the need of starving participant. WORD REQUEST:-()-:par.the.no.gen.e.sis :wink: :lol: :cool:

i’m up in Griffin, cufan… :cool:

When we were twelve, my buddy and I played truant from school on a nice June day. In a park across town, we met two girls about the same age. We spent the afternoon telling stories and jokes,and shared our lunches. Not much of a picnic, but we learned that girls could be good company, and I think the girls learned that not all twelve year old boys were monsters. Our schools were not co-ed then, so we all grew up a little that day.Schools and rules were quite strict then, and we caught hell next day, but it was worth it. Many picnics later, that one still stands out. Thanks, Marina.

I would like to request the word, “doppelganger”, please. Oh, and how about the word, “please”, while I’m at it?

:cool: I’m down in Pike County. :grin:

Where was the first Neanderthal found?

O-Word Requests :cool:
Opossum & Onion
Opossum Where I come from! :smile:

No, but I’ve seen it on open boating season.

yes very interesting Fianchetto :smile: :!: THANKS FOR THE LINK :wink:

B.B.

Amazingly close, but Shakira’s eyes are more cat-like (makeup?), Marina’s cheekbones are higher (makeup?) and there is more space between the nose and mouth. It would be interesting to see a comparison if Shakira hair was more golden. Any Photoshoppers out there?

Of course, the ultimate comparison would be to have one on each arm for a weekend. (Yeah, like that’s gonna happen!) :mrgreen:

You guys are Renton the language asunder.

Oh, no you don’t! I can’t let you get away with that logic. When YT began is irrelevant. If you have a film from a hundred years ago, it can still be on YT. The only thing that matters is did someone get it on film/tape and did they realize they could make a lot more money submitting it to a funny video TV show than YT?

…Jack Frost nipping at your nose… :mrgreen:

(Sorry, that just got me thinking of part of that song.)

Hey, Marina, do Russian women carry squirt bottles around on dates to regulate, the, uh, heat of their boyfriends? If so I imagine that some guys would carry their own so they could squirt themselves and look to their peers as though they were “squirt-worthy.” :lol:

Roman: “It looks like you had a really hot time tonight, Tolik.
Anatoliy: “Yeah, Oksana had to squirt me a couple of times.”
Roman: “Are you sure you didn’t miss the toilet on purpose?”
Anatoliy: “Shut up!”

No they’re not! There are other differences such as height, eye color, skin tone, waist and breast sizes.
I also made YouTube friends with Shakira last week. I know it doesn’t mean much since it is over the internet and all, but it was still a boost of confidence.
Awe cool! I just made YouTube friends with Beyonce today! :grin:

I posted the answer to your ‘picture size question’ in the Forum Sandbox practice tread.

I think everyone has been on a picnic at some point in their life… or a family barbarque. But I haven’t been to one in years.
Hamburgers, hot dogs, BBQ chicken and ribs, chips, soda, egg salad, sandwiches…

I posted the answer to your ‘picture size question’ in the Forum Sandbox practice tread.
Che

:cool: WORD REQUESTS… 1. Donnybrook 2. Nomenclature :cool:

I guess life itself is some sort of picnic. You pick what you like, you trash, destroy or ignore what you don’t like. Between friends and family, it’s a bliss. Between politicians, competitors or businessmen, it sometimes becomes a messy piranha’s feast.

Here is some antique Aztec definition of picnic party. Yes, I agree, some will say it ain’t no picnic at all.

I have a request. It really bothers me. I notice you usually only do video request now but I have no way of doing one. Hopefully someone else is as curious as me and has a web cam. Anyway I want to know how we got the expression “With flying colors.”. I’m really curious. Look at all the question marks I’m using. :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?: :?:

i love pork

One is an introvert and the other one is an extrovert. I sometimes ask myself who’s the best?

hi, thanks :)

my first languages is Spanish … I’m Mexican :) …. but in the school here in Mexico teach us the English languages and I learn it .. o that I want :P

But thanks for time :)

and you are American??
by the way, I don’t think that the people of USA would be the “americans” .. because I born in Mexico and I’m an American too .. o you don’t think like??? :shock:

piece of cake is out of its pie….oh my, “did I die”, said the RHUBARB, “for your pie”…no, no, no and see me in Spring unless you caked some…”Let’em eat bread” “Stop that cake, for it is upside down” The latest Carla Bruni piece has a song (second song, pee wee king is from Wisconsin) on her latest album I remember King Louis’ wife had a quote with cake

thank you … I read the article, now I wanna said to mi teacher about that meaning :)

bye :)

but now I’ve a other word .. is … FAX …. yeah .. because I heard a couple of native speaker and said … hey fax me …. maybe is because is more easy used shortening word like e-mail and not use electronic-mail :???: … is a good idea used .. “fax me” ??

Oh well, Marina won’t get to this anyway. The first Neanderthal was found in Neanderthal Valley in Germany. The valley was named after a German language scholar named Neumann (German for “new man”), who liked to refer to himself as “Neander” (Greek for “new man”).
At least, that’s as well as I can remember from the National Geographic article without going back and looking it up. :wink:

@Camp: See der River?

Por supuesto, todos de nosotros somos americanos, de Alaska hasta Argentina. Y pienso yo del espanol como lengua americana, no lengua extranjera. :smile:

Well there’s this Aussie joke:
Q: Why is American beer like making love in a canoe?
A: Because it’s fucking close to water!

orale .. tu hablas español :) …no muy bien .. pero es mas que muchos :) …. is because the message appears is translate by google translate :P … but is great to met people that wanna speak spanish and speak english :)

OK, since we’ve all moved on to “Nimrod”, fatbuffalo got it: it’s another name for the Cyrillic alphabet in which Russian, Ukranian, Bulgarian, & Serbian (& a few others) are written. :smile:

Yes. :mrgreen: I’ve seen and been on the U-505 many times. :cool: My first time was on a fieldtrip when I was still and grade school.

Yes, we go on picnics all the time. In bad weather, we will have indoor picnics with the grandkids. Just spread a blanket in the living room, make some PB&Js, and the picnic is on.

Was it just me, or does M have a much stronger Russian accent when she is in Russia? I thought so.

Oh yeah, M (and family?) around 1:20 reminds me SOOO much of my oldest granddaughter. She is only ten, now, but she is still all arms and legs. She is her Papa’s little geek. She sits and watches the History Channel, Science Channel, etc. with Papa. She loves planets, animals, any other book she can get her hands on. Oh yeah, she loves faeries, too. :grin:

That clip of the BBQ in Russia was two years ago, she said.

I hail from the Udistrict, on a good day I can make out Lake Washington.

“Shashlic”
is one of the few Russian words I know.

I hope it tasted as good as it looked.

Doppelganger is german for double image or ghost, and is a person or image that follows you or looks like you. The Barbie doll became the doppelganger of the daughter of the lady who designed it based on her.

Soul much excitement*!*…Soeur Sourire plays and sings / Dominique (1963)…some people called this song the nic,nic song…Marina, were you into [Goth]? I think so :roll:

…a picnic in winter is fun, but more fun in the summer sun…

:razz: [pork]

Loved the lesson! :grin:

http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/04/20/bbq-answer/comment-page-2/#comment-130831

dis was a RAndom…for a friend…just before [brats] :grin:

Most of the time the Russians enjoy Caucasian style barbecue. The main difference to European or western style barbecue is the size of meat pieces. In the Caucasus they thread small pieces of meat and vegetables onto long metal skewers.

There are lots of marinade recipes. Here are some of them.

Shashlik – easy basic marinade :smile: When is the HotForWords picnic???…nice family pictures

[marina-de]…marinade

Rated A+…Larry got his random :-) Marina is soul COOL.. she is HOTFORWORDS [[[[[think]]]]….Larry request is a thought…[THINK]…thank you :P stone soul picnic

Yes I’ve been on a picnic. What is the origin of the word {trifle}?

Roger